Corporate support

The support we receive from businesses is an invaluable part of our fundraising.

There are many ways we can work together with companies, your workplace could make us their charity of the year or hold a fundraising event for us.

We have corporate team places on many of our events such a our World's Strongest Boys Triathlon.

If you would like to discuss how we could work with your business please get in touch.

Foodbuy and Compass

Duchenne UK are Compass and Foodbuy's charity of the year. They have a team in the Duchenne Dash 2017.Read more

London Stone

London Stone are helping to raise desperately needed funds for Duchenne UK to support Felix and other young boys with DMD.Read more

Latest

Ralphy's Fund

We have set ourselves a target to raise awareness and as much money as we can to help fund research to find a cure for this cruel disease.

Wheels of Change: BUILDING THE DREAM CHAIR

We partnered with Whizz-Kidz and the University of Edinburgh to win £1 million from the People’s Postcode Lottery Dream Fund to develop a dream chair for wheelchair users. Read this update from WhizzKidz

Duchenne UK Grants a further £780,000 to Tamoxifen Open Label Extension Study

Open Label Extension Study will give all patients on the TAMDMD trial access to Tamoxifen after completing trial. Total funding commitment to the TAMDMD trial now stands at £1.4million.

Please complete our survey to better understand how prescription medicines and nutraceuticals are currently used by those living with DMD

We need your help to better understand what medicines patients are taking.

Duchenne Dash 2019

London to Paris in 24 hours, by bike! Please contact us to register interest for 2019 [email protected]

Meet The Team

Our co-founders Alex Johnson and Emily Crossley met after their sons were diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. They both set up charities, Alex with Joining Jack, Emily with the Duchenne Children’s Trust.

Girls living with Duchenne

Duchenne affects approximately 1 in every 3,500 boys that are born but only around 1 in every 50 million girls. It may be rare, but it does happen. We have been speaking to Feriel, a 26 year old woman living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She has written us a short blog about her experiences with Duchenne from diagnosis to now.